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Black Patriotism Over White Paternalism

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Is Equal Opportunity Not Enough?

Even under slavery, there were forms of agency and resistancethe within slavery that took place. I'm sometimes stunned at the way in which people, liberals generally, will speak about african americans in the past,. even under slavery. When lindon johnson said equal opportunity is not enough, he was not only lying about equal opportunity, and he was diminishing the respect for blacks who got the message, we can't do it. We're not capable. He was saying to all Americans, you are not capable. Equal opportunity is not sufficient. And i think it eas to be repeated over and over again. You note that the data that putnam compiles put racial animus

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